Voices at El Sueño Existe, 2019
LAB was present at Wales’ own Latin America Festival, called El Sueño Existe, held in Machynlleth every other year since 2001. We had...
Chileans demand the right to live in dignity
'No son $30'
On Friday 18 October, Chilean president
Sebastian Piñera announced a state of emergency in the country’s capital
Santiago. As protests spread throughout the country...
The Chilean Spring
It is spring in the Southern hemisphere. But in Chile, this spring is different - Santiago, 29 October
‘Chile has woken up’ is one of...
Chile: why didn’t this happen before?
LAB received this report from a long-term friend and supporter in Chile.
Santiago, 1 November
Dear friends at LAB, our country received so much help from...
Chile: students in Talca explain why they back the protests
On the 18th of October 2019, mass
fare dodging in Santiago de Chile expanded into city-wide protests and
violence. Initially in response to a transport price...
First Chile, then Bolivia and now Colombia… LAB Newsletter, November 2019
In addition to our website, LAB’s Facebook page
provides a daily stream of summaries and links to articles published elsewhere.
In this newsletter we have done...
Peronism back in the Casa Rosada
On 10 December,
Alberto Fernández and his deputy Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (no relation)
assumed the Argentine presidency marking an end to the right wing administration
of...
Bolsonaro clowns while poverty soars
In what has become a daily ritual in Brasilia, the sleek black car stops by the band of fervent Bolsonaristas waiting outside the Alvorada...
Chile: Censored humanity
Chile's protests were thwarted when the arrival of Coronavirus forced the population to stay at home. As the impact of the quarantine takes its...
Guatemala: the void left by empty classrooms
Sunset over Guatemala City marks another day of widening inequality and increasing despair as Covid-19 cases continue to rise. With the country’s informal economy...